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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Religion’s place in the public square

On August 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

July 07, 2009 Kevin Rudd’s audience with the Pope should be welcomed THE peculiar hostility among sections of the media, and on blogsites, over Kevin Rudd’s audience with Pope Benedict XVI this week reflects a narrow world view. As he prepares to meet the Pope, who has recently signed his third encyclical, Charity in Truth […]

Inter-Religious Leadership

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Sightings 4/2/09 Seminaries as Incubators of Inter-Religious Leadership — Joshua M. Z. Stanton Evangelical pastor convinces student to become rabbi. It sounds like the start of a bad joke. But while I was an undergraduate, The Reverend Dr. Paul Sorrentino, who is Director of Religious Life at Amherst College and a beloved mentor, convinced me […]

God Is Back

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  God is Back, August 3, 2009 http://jmm.org.au/articles/22784.htm Sightings 4/6/09  ¢â‚¬“ Martin E. Marty is the title of a richly detailed new book by John Micklethwait, editor, and Adrian Wooldridge, Washington bureau chief, of The Economist, the news magazine so welcomed at our house. I profited from reading the book, but, in our self-imposed, self-enforced […]

Declan – Tell Me Why – a children’s tribute

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Selfishness

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Been thinking about this today (from a UK preacher’s journal): ‘There was a time in the early 19th century when all the slaves in the southern U.S. could have been redeemed for about 3 million pounds. But greed won and the moment passed. Fifty years later it cost hundreds of millions of pounds and thousands […]

Hope

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“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” St. Augustine

Happiness

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“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.” Margaret Mead

Same-sex Marriage

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[I’m posting this here, not because it’s the last word – it certainly isn’t – nor because I agree with it totally (the author doesn’t offer too many positive alternatives), but to provide a well-written all-too-brief conservative view of the subject. Those who know me have to live with my strange idea that a mature […]

Islam Gains Ground in Europe

On July 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A Turning Tide in Europe as Islam Gains Ground By DWIGHT GARNER Published: July 29, 2009 Christopher Caldwell’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West” is a hot book presented under a cool, scholarly title. To observe that Mr. Caldwell’s rhetoric is “hot” is not to say that it is aggrieved […]

The Jesus I Know

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Ed. Adam Harbinson, The Columba Press, 2009 Here’s an interesting pot-pourri of ‘testimonies’ written by a disparate group of people – a few Catholic priests, three or four ManUnited fans, well-known raconteur Adrian Plass, a singer/songwriter who sources the story of the woman taken in adultery in Matthew’s gospel (instead of John’s), a couple of […]

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